Utah prep LB commits to UH
Drake Miller, 6-2, 210-pound linebacker from Bingham (Utah) High, said he’s accepted a football scholarship offer from the Warriors.
Miller said he turned down an offer from Utah State. He also received interest from Utah.
Miller is a physical defender who chose UH because of “Norm Chow and his program.” D-line coach Lewis Powell was the point recruiter.
Here’s his highlight video: Miller.
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Changes are expected in preparation for this coming Saturday’s road game against Colorado State, beginning with today’s 90-minute practice following a two-day break.
The Warriors will have afternoon practices through Wednesday. They will practice on Thursday morning, then depart that afternoon for Los Angeles, where they will spend the night.
For road games against USC and BYU, the Warriors had a walk-through at an LA-area high school. This time, they will travel to Fort Collins, Colo., on Friday afternoon, then have a walk-through at CSU’s stadium.
This is part of the Warriors’ restructuring the way they practice and travel.
There’s one other change: The Warriors will have a karaoke contest this evening.
karaoke?! Should be interesting.
First
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There are some good singers on the team, supposedly.
There also are two excellent dancers — Cecil Doe and Haku Correa.
Good morning, gang!
Just as I was gonna post, BAM! no comments…
GO WARRIORS!!!
Cecil Doe plays great keyboards.
Aw, Slugger, you did have 20 hours to post . . .
And David Graves is talented with the sax.
I heard Saui is very good with the ukulele.
Wish practice was open…think they’d let me in?
I have a couple of films at HIFF to watch later. What time do they start practice in the afternoon?
GOOD MORNING HAWAII!
Play on!
Wow, that game last night! GO WAHINE!
Forecast for game day now partly sunny and 42. On the bright side, your beer stays cold. 🙂
Good morning Tsaikos!
99club – Hawaii people gonna need sumting warmer, like sake, Irish coffee or a hot toddy. 😀
HTTR!
Slugger @#11: Check out “All About My Wife” at HIFF, pretty funny stuff.
Ohayooooooooogozaimasu!!!!!
GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!!
LAST DAY OF THE Hawaii International Film Festival at Dole!!!!
Is the weekly press conference with Norm Chow being done this week? It hasn’t been posted on Hawaii Athletics site as of today.
Also, anyone know why Kaumeyer will be pinch hitting for Chow at the upcoming “Call The Coach Show”?
It doesn’t matter if Graves is talented musically. He probably won’t be allowed to participate in the contest.
Any news on getting defensive linemen recruits?
Morning all.
Good morning again, kev-1, iwonderwhy’, slugger, tommui, Tsai, sorry for not mentioning youse others. Good morning!!!!!!!!
Mostly all-male so far on the board. Where’re all the single ladies, all the single ladies, all the single ladies!? Or other ladies? 😉
Should be a fun karaoke contest! Something different!
What’s the prize, by the way?
#18,
Lol
[gigi_hawaii answers a Grease‘s prayers.]
Good morning everyone!
Karaoke contest? Will the media have a team… like that Kekaula & Tsai pair from the Inside Access show? 😉
Tsai should be given a chance at the mic’; and it s/b filmed/taped ;).
SteveM is not saying anything… 😐
When was the last Tsaiko karaoke competition?
Heh, sorry SteveM . . . somehow didn’t see your # 26.
C-Grease… haha… you haven’t met me yet… Figure out what you are wearing to the HIFF films today & I’ll try to find you in the Priority line for “Tenchi.” I’ll be in the Member line wearing my green UH “Hawaii” UA tee.
Na Koa luncheons: They rotate the coaches speaking at the luncheons. HC isn’t always the speaker. Sorry I missed Demo…
If practice is at 4 pm, no can go… 🙁
Ok hahaha. Will be looking for you. Haven’t laid out my wardrobe for today but a Greease is a tshirt jeans guy :).
Slugger,
Na Koa Luncheons rotate. “Call The Coach Show” does not, at least it never has as long as I remember.
“The Animals” last week said that Kaumeyer will be going in place of Chow. Maybe its because UH wants to give fans a chance to grill/question/comment our lack of defense thus far.
iwwthm,
UH had a lot of defense these past few weeks. Unfortunately they were all that the Senate hearings on the Wonder Blunder…
#34 Madeinhawaii:
And lots of fumbles too!
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any Inside Access show today?
We were watching KIKU, ch 9, and they are doing a time Life special of the great songs called Ten Years – oh, such memories!!!!
reason for this post is that if you order and pay by credit card, they will give you, for free, an Elvis dvd with his so-called “love songs”
now the real reason, is that I served with an officer at Ft Knox who served in Germany as an enlisted man with Elvis and he swears that Elvis asked for and got no favors from the Army as many surmise – Elvis, he said, did everything any other enlisted did including taking all the courses and exams/facing promotion boards.
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RE: #31 & 32
SteveM wonders if Chicken Grease knows that Slugger is a Tsaikette. 😕
He does now.
A Grease should be careful not to upset a Tsai-kette such as Slugger.
Beware the lead slippahs.
If not the lead slippahs.. the brick and chain lei should give him a good hint…
Ooohhhh, you guys spoiled a good surprise… 🙂
Chicken Grease, I’ll see you at the movies tonight.
Wish I could attend the karaoke night with the guys tonight, though. Looking for reports from the Tsaimeister tonight. Thanks, ST!
A Grease might seriously consider flowers, chocolates, . . .
Oh, and bring something for Slugger, too.
chow should have asked the previous UH coaches about travel and use their experience and inputs instead of this on-the-job training on how to travel with the team. i believe the team should leave on thursday and fly straight to colorado. after all, they are playing in Ft Collins and NOT in Los Angeles.
all that traveling, hurry up and wait, first to LA then all over again to Colorado takes it’s toll. It turns this one road trip to colorado into two road trips. chow did say on his Inside Access show he hasn’t figured this travel stuff out yet, BRAH! ask your buddy JJ, or bob wagner or even tsai how and why things were done the way they were in the past. geezzussss, LOSS MONEY.
this bugga will tire out the players before they even play the game.
#18. lmao, good one Kev-1
One of the things I could never understand about the Coach’s decision not to walk through at the stadium the Warriors play in.
So they don’t get big eye and take pictures on a Friday. It would make me pee in my pants to walk in on game day with 90,000+ screaming at me. Plus ot would be beneficial for the players to get a feel for the turf, deprh perception for QB and receivers, etc
Glad they realize it now.
Where is everyone?
Slow day . . .
Half century!
Hi, wafan, stay warm…
Going to work & then to movies. Wonder if I’ll get to meet up with Grease?
Laters.
wafan is just itching to get a lead slippah launched his way!
mih and SteveM too and they’re much closer! 😈
btw, for those with Dish, they are now showing the original Japanese version of “Pulse” on channel 349. creepy…
Um. Dunno what the above to a Grease is supposed to mean, but, uh, a Grease’ll just steer clear at Dole, heh. :). “Love, peace, Chicken Grease.”
And Idaho’s Robb Akey becomes the first FBS head-coach to get the ax this season:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/idaho-fires-akey-1-7-235602148–ncaaf.html
wafan, everyone was watching the Jets/Pats game.
awww, jm2375… Slugger and her surprises have just begun… 😉
This reminds me of the time early in the blog when Al and a blogger named “sakana” from Maui learned (on the blog) that both would be in downtown Vegas at the same time. Al said he’s staying at the Nugget and Sakana said he’ll stop by and met him.
Of course, neither knew each other’s real name and contact info in those days. The Tsai-ko scrapbook and photo archives did not exist back then. Of course, the meet never happened.
There is much more to this story in the following years. Maybe Al will tell it. 🙂
#55 Committed Road Warrior:
You know that the new interim coach was a QB for St. Louis HS.
Wow! Jason Gesser – interim head coach. Go Crusaders!
any word on how colt brennan is doing?
#60 sawarrior
I heard he is coaching at Kahuku.
#46 sawarrior the only reason chow stops over in LA is b/cause he has his home their and his mother lives there. chow is a californian he ain’t no local boy if he was with all his $$$$ he would of bought a house in the 808.
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What is Colt gonna coach in Kahuku? They don’t throw the ball.
Wow.. Robb Akey got canned..
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/idaho-robb-akey-becomes-first-coaching-casualty-003855390–ncaaf.html
manoa . . . how is that relevant to anything? You’re reaching. I know what you think about Chow and the team, but where he has houses is a non-issue.
#64 kev-1
Good question…ask Reggie.
Oprah has a house in Maui… does that make her a local girl?
C-Grease,
No worry I don’t throw slippahs. Look for me at Dole.
Standing in line for a Free movie about the takeover of Hawaii: Ua Mau …. Come on down!
kev das why he chose LA for the stopover. come on chow has been in this business too long to still figure how to travel to games. at byu they always leave on thurs have their walk thru at the stadium on friday so they can get a feel for the field. now they have to go to LA then to where they will play no make sense. like sawarrior said it takes a toll on the team.
kev das why he chose LA for the stopover. come on chow has been in this business too long to still figure how to travel to games. at byu they always leave on thurs have their walk thru at the stadium on friday so they can get a feel for the field. now they have to go to LA then to where they will play no make sense. like sawarrior said it takes a toll on the team.
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Good day at the office.
Troubling new trend of firing coaches and coordinators during the season.
Looks like Hawaii got a new commit today…
@76
Who dat?
77. I’ll Let ST give you guys the details…
77. LB Drake Miller
Not necessarily related to UH team travels, but according to Wikipedia, Los Angeles (LAX) is the 6th busiest airport in the world, after ATL, Beijing, London Heathrow, ORD, and Tokyo Haneda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airport
All major carriers fly to LAX, hence the many flights. When you have have many flights to one city, the airlines get aggressive in their pricing. Generally, the most and lowest fare flights are found for LAX.
Since, ahem, UH does not have it’s own charter flights, it makes sense to fly to LAX on the first segment. SFO and DEN make sense too, but there are fewer flights and less competition.
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79…thanks! The suspense was killing me!
80. yes, fly to lax to CONNECT and NOT to spend a day there, and then the team has to do it all over again to travel to colorado.
go to lax, check in hotel, check out of hotel, go to lax to fly to colorado, check in hotel AGAIN…. bah! too much hurry up and wait takes its toll on folks. that stay in la is BS.
Don’t the Warriors fly charter w/in CONUS? Wouldn’t it then make more fiscal sense to go through the same city every time? In years past, didn’t they fly to LAS and take the 2:00 am flight to HNL? Same difference. (Doesn’t Mack have a house in LV? – same logic)
For the high altitude schools (BYU & Reno to a point, CSU, AF & Wyoming), IIRC, the thought was to spend as little time there as possible, since it takes a week or more to acclimate and it was detrimental to spend too much time if not going to acclimate.
Here is Drake Miller’s Scout profile.
6’2″ 210 4.7
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=6208054
85. the team is spending the night in los angeles then flying to colorado the next day. tell me please, where is the logic in that? i think you’re misunderstanding the teams travel plans.
btw- from what i understand, the team does not fly charter.
well, “call of the wild man” is on. i’ll check back later.
Coach Mack had houses in Vegas, so the team stayed in Vegas
Coach Chow has a house in LA, so the team stays in LA
At least the team will have a walk-through at the stadium the day before the game, I think that is a positive change. There are also a LOT more recruits in the LA area (as compared to the Vegas area) that the coaches can do school visits, etc. while there.
Souls in the Waves…
Very good Early morning, I just stopped in to go to your site and assumed I would say I liked myself….
As I recall, none of this is new, but it seems noteworthy…
1) If we lose against Colorado State, the team should have spent a few days at altitude, unless they did, and then they should have flown in that morning, unless they did, and then they should have spent a week at altitude, unless they did, and then they should have played X instead of Y, unless I forgot something 🙂
http://warriorbeat.staradvertiserblogs.com/2010/02/21/higher-ground/
2) the UH negotiating team, led by the President, agreed to pay to enable Mountain West visiting teams to take charter flights to Hawaii but expect our team travel coach.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/20120726__UH_in_talks_for_relief_from_fees_to_football_opponents.html?id=163829806
3) The UH President blamed the formed AD for not moving fast enough (“rolling over”) to move UH into the Mountain West.
anyway … GO WARRIORS!
Unless we fly non-stop to the final destination city, another issue in UH travel to the mainland is the time. If we left in the “afternoon”, the flight time is approximately 5 hours to the west coast. Add the DST time difference and it is 8 hours later when we land. Unfortunately, there are probably very few connecting flights OUT to the secondary cities at that time of night.
I suppose the option is an overnight hotel or sleep in airport lobby.
Another option is to leave HNL in the morning, but that would mean one less full practice. Also if two connecting flights are needed out of LAX, then you are back to waiting for dawn again.
Chicken Grease,
Sorry, couldn’t look for you. Just got into the Tenchi theatre after hanging out as long as possible at the Ua Mau Ke Ea discussion. Maybe I’ll see you after da movie.
The stay in L.A. is good because it breaks up the travel. Plus, they have a charter on the mainland, so it’s fine. They’ll get to fly directly to Fort Collins, thus bypassing Denver.
The problem on the road isn’t about staying overnight in L.A.
It’s about playing USC, BYU and San Diego State (on fireworks night) on the road.
Also, Chow doesn’t go to his family home in L.A. during road trips. That wasn’t the case with McMackin when the team stayed in Las Vegas.
The less days spent at altitude the better. Anything over 48 hours and less than 14 days would actually be detrimental.
ST,
You ever hear from McMackin? I hope he’s doing all right.
ST – thank you for your #95 & #96.
Still remember a former UH HC complaining about flying commercial. The team waited for hours at Denver’s Airport for their connecting flight after getting pounded at Wyoming, and watched Michigan’s Football team board their charter after their game at CU.
Nope. Few have heard from Mack since he “retired.”
Not Derek.
Not any reporter.
Not the trainers, equipment managers, team doctors, or travel agents.
Wo-o-oh. Take the money and run.
Wow.. more people heard from Wagner soon after he left even though he wasn’t too happy a camper at that time.
Welcome to the Warriors, Drake Miller!
I feel sorry for Coach Mac. He was set to go to SMU when UH offered $1.1 million for 5 years. It was an offer too good to be true. We played exciting football for 4 years, but lost a few blowout games on national TV. He was a good hearted coach put in a tough position, to be a strict head coach but he seemed too nice.
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(Wow…I felt like I stepped into an Allied Communications time capsule!)
My daughter took a picture with Coach Mac last month. He would only take the pic if my daughter wore his WAC championship ring. He was in good spirits but not my place to ask more personal questions. He was watching his grandson play for Kaiser.
Has anyone seen JD? That guy is MIA too!
JD looks to be doing fine. No reserved spaces but he just so happens to park next to me at UH a few times a week.
I think the best part about his job is that he is gone by 4:30.
Welcome to the Warriors Drake Miller.
How come you never hear about break-ins and overnight theft at Punahou or Iolani? Maybe UH should hire the security company working at those schools. It’s obvious that UH’s Campus Security is way over their heads and understaffed in trying to protect the campus.
Old School Dave,
Iolani, Punahou, MPI etc are not open campuses like UH. A man walking around UH isn’t weird. A man walking around a private school raises a red flag. Not to mention the number of buildings and classrooms are probably 10 or 20X more than high school campuses.
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Was karaoke, or carioki as the case may be, a success?
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Good morning, wafan! Good morning, midnight!
Morning, gang!
Waiting for karaoke report.
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Great Morning All!
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Whatever route, layovers, timing or roster; so long as the Itinerary includes bringing home a WIN….
GO WARRIORS!
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